Volvo Cars, owned by Ford Motor, on the 8 Oct announced a fresh round of 4,000 job cuts, bringing its total planned reduction in headcount to 6,000, or about 25 per cent of its staff.
Most of the cuts will be at Volvo's main plant near Gothenburg, where it makes large vehicles, whose sales have been hit hardest in the current downturn. However, jobs will also go at its second plant in Ghent, Belgium, and at overseas sales subsidiaries.
“The unstable economic environment has resulted in an unpredictable situation, and the downturn in the global car industry is more drastic than expected,'' Stephen Odell, Volvo's chief executive said.
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